Bad Luck Vampire by Lynsay Sands
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands returns in this latest chapter of the Argeneau series with an immortal who is having a bit of bad luck while trying to woo his life mate…
Bad Luck Vampire
Alasdair MacKenzie has never once considered himself unlucky in all the centuries he’s been an immortal rogue enforcer. Not until he meets Sophie. Finding the beautiful, smart, and funny woman who is his life mate is great luck, actually. But meeting her at a wedding full of Argeneaus, not to mention his own busybody uncles determined to “help him claim his woman,” is bad luck. And the fact that Sophie is someone else’s date? Well that’s just the next level of unlucky.
From the way her gaze travels over his body like a caress to the electric zing whenever they innocently touch…he wants her for all eternity! He’ll keep his hands off Sophie until her date is over. After that all bets are off and he’ll pull out all the stops to win her. Great plan—until he gets hit by a car. And then he’s poisoned. Is his luck that bad, or is someone out to stop this immortal from claiming Sophie as his life mate?
Maybe the best one so far!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤💙❤️💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☺️😊😁😉🥰
The heroine: Sophie – she is a former foster child who works with the last family who fostered her at an insurance company owned by the father. She works with her father, foster sister and brother. They call her the black widow because two of her former boyfriends have died on her and one is on life support and basically brain dead. When she goes on a blind date from hell, she is rescued by Tybo and Valerian, two immortals who are enforcers for Lucian Argeneau. Tybo thinks she is cute and asks her on a date to Valerian’s wedding.
The Hero: Alasdair – he is an attendee at the wedding and along with his twin brother Colle, is planning to help Lucian as an enforcer in place of Valerian while he is on his honeymoon. Alistair and Colle are very close since they are twins and can’t read each other. They have lived together for a while and neither has been interested in food or sex for centuries. He is one of the Mackenzies from Scotland.
The story: Alasdair’s four Scottish uncles were also at the wedding and as soon as the four rogue hunters found out that he had found his life mate, they were determined to help him woo the girl. Though Alasdair would rather the four nosy uncles would stay out of it, he knew they were like dogs with a bone. The uncles were very Scottish and absolutely hilarious.
The story was definitely a good one. I happen to love this series and haven’t gotten sick of it yet. I hope Lynsay keeps writing more. The romance between these two happened fast, but I like how they still got to know each other and had a few dates. Then there were some events that suggested someone was after Alasdair and with Sophie’s history of boyfriends and accidents, it seemed she might have a stalker. Though even her parents died in a fire when she was young, so it was hard to tell what exactly was going on.
I think this was actually one of my favorite stories so far in the series. I love how this series has such terrific and colorful supporting characters. I can’t wait for Tybo and Colle to get their own stories, I hope they are coming up soon. The uncles were also terrific characters, though I am not sure if I want them to get their own stories since it is kind of hard to figure out what exactly they are saying half the time with their thick Scottish brogues.
“Honey, like Uncle Ludan told you, we’re immortals not vampires.” A very unamused snort came from the other side of the door.
“Well, Alasdair, honey, you can call it what you want, but if it looks like a duck and quacks like duck, it’s a damned duck.”
I voluntarily read & reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts & opinions are my own.
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